A crowd amassed, anticipating a cathartic moment and chanting, “Take it down! Take it down!” Livestreams were up and running. Scaffolding appeared. And then, early this afternoon, the ruling came: A federal judge had denied an emergency motion to let President Trump’s name remain on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. It remains unclear whether the 18 letters in question— THE DONALD J. TRUMP AND —will be yanked from the marble facade or simply covered up. But one way or